Meanwhile, all the locals have here is another executive shuffle, one that saw assistant managing editor Susan Bischoff, longtime head of the features department, get promoted to deputy managing editor. Her responsibilities now include the newsroom.

Seeing as Bischoff is heavily involved in the local charity and social scene -- she regularly shows up in the Chron's society columns -- there's a feeling in some parts of the newsroom that the paper's herd of sacred cows has just added quite a few head.